Teachers help you learn to make good choices. Reporter in cherry hill sarah and her four yearold daughter pearl, quickly evacuated from Katz Jewish Community Center on early monday. I find it disturbing that someone thinks this is entertaining thing to do continue on still fear, threaten young children. Reporter cbs news confirms bomb threats called into Community Centers here, wilmington, wynnewood, appear to be coordinated as part of a broad attempt to intimidate, anger and frustration for or directed at the white house. It seems like certain people who ran on certain tickets in the election are making themselves known that they want us to be afraid of them now. Reporter in the afternoon news briefing press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Trump shares the frustration. The president continues to condemn these and any other form of anti sematic and hateful acts in the strongest terms. Reporter Justice Department and fbi have initiated probes in the phone calls. Pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro released this statement pledging the full resources of his office, writing, the acts are cowardly , they are perpetrators aimed to spread fear but we will stand together to ensure that they fail. For parents like sarah concern concern todays incident ace alarming. It is state of the fares right now in the United States and more reflective of how divided the country is. Reporter School Officials tell us that both here, in new jersey and delaware that their evacuation procedures went off without a hitch. Unfortunate as it may have been. Reporting live in wynnewood im joe holden for cbs3 eye eye eye owe Eyewitness News. Search continues for vandals in wissonoming over the weekend. Police say someone knocked over about 100 grave stones, under the cover of the dark ness on saturday, and Anti Defamation League has contributed thousand dollars to to now 13,000 reward for information leading to the vandals. Tomb stone desecration at mount carmel jewish spent try is a kind of a spiritual violence that must be stopped, and then denounced by all people who a blower the hate filled anti sematism that is escalating where ever, whenever we are seeing it and hear it. Other local officials are stepping into help as well, john dougherty, Business Manager at philadelphias electrical workers union, has offered to clean up the cemeteries and repair, the damaged grave stones. He said that the union would also install new lighting and security cameras, at no charge people from all faiths are coming together to help a community heel after a vandalism at the cemetery. Eyewitness News Reporter alycia nieves explains why one of the oldest muslim organizations is lending a hand. Reporter there has been a study flow of people at mount carmel cemeteries over the last 24 hours, after vandals toppled more than 100 tomb stones here. It was like, you know, a prick in my heart. Nobody is safe. Reporter some like Adrian Burger with generations of loved ones buried here, are questioning why this happened. Others, trying to undue some of the damage. But these graves are the broken graves and were just trying to help heel the broken graves. Reporter while they laid flowers along some of the vandalized grave sites the cities mayor helped this man. This is my fathers site. Reporter upright his fathers tomb stone. Second world war. Whoever did this would have never done it to this guy alive. I think good people overwhelming there are more good people overwhelming then there is rotten hating idiots, and i think in the end, you know, the goodwill prevail. Reporter people from all backgrounds set up in solidarity supporting the Jewish Community in the wake of this vandalism, including some in the muslim community, like salem, bahadi who says his Community Knows what it is like to be targeted. Any targeting of any faith is an attack on all faiths. We cannot sit back and say they are jewish people were muslim, they are okay f they come for the jews they will come for us as well. Reporter it is one of the oldest muslim organizations in the country. He told me he came here today because he believes that at a time like this, it is important, for people, to be compassion for muslim americans. In wissonoming alycia nieves for cbs3 Eyewitness News. There are new developments in the Sexual Assault trial of bill cosby. Lets show you video of cost biz leaving Court Earlier in Montgomery County. At todays hearing a judge refused defense request to move the trial to a different location. Jurors will be brought in from outside of Montgomery County and they will be sequestered. Cosby is accused of sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his cheltenham home in 2004. Preparing for new policies , some local lawmakers are vowing to keep, philadelphia, a sanctuary city for Illegal Immigrants despite opposition from the federal government, and now, some in state government. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh is live at city hall with more on that and other issues discussed today, anita. Reporter good evening, guess contact well, according to the Pennsylvania Senate the state supplies 1. 3 billion to socalled sanctuary cities, now some state lawmakers are working to block that money. All of this, of course, coming at a time when white house is vowing to crackdown on illegal immigration and today philadelphia leaders discussed how president Donald Trumps policies could make an impact right here at home. So that is number one. Reporter on monday congressman Brendan Boyle testified in front of the philadelphias City Council Leaders out lining what he believes the damaging impact of president Donald Trumps policies from education to immigration. It shows what you a tumultuous time this is in our country, and what a dangerous 10or is being set by this white house. Reporter as federal administration cracks down on illegal immigration Pennsylvania State senators recently approved legislation that would strip socalled sanctuary cities like philadelphia, of state funding this isnt going to lead to mass deportation or racial profiling it only applies to undocumented immigrants that are already in Law Enforcement custody. Reporter if signed in law the effects would be dramatic says City Council President darryl clark. We have heard numbers as high as 600 milliondollar that would totally wreck our budget process. Reporter beyond fiscal concerns there are also moral concerns about immigration and Customs Enforcement rates, says peter, executive director of the new sanction war i movement of philadelphia terrorizing immigrant communities and it is tearing apart families. Reporter why a daze after the president ial election the inter faith organization, began treating, and training 13 philadelphians to disrupt ice raids, seven of which have occurred in philadelphia in the past month according to the man. To over people yelling open the door, you became more panic and heard screaming. Reporter and while president s executive order would deny federal funding to sanctuary cities. I think that is a terrible mistake. Reporter senate bill 10 goes to the state house of representatives, which is expected to reconvene on march. However no specific date has been set to discuss this piece of legislation. For now reporting from city hall, anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Revitalization continues on the camden waterfront. American water broke gown on the new headquarters along the Delaware River waterfront. The cities part of the liberty trust 1 billiondollar plan to build offices, hotels, shops, residents, the Water Company is consolidating five leased offices, and will bring 600 employees to this new headquarters. The five story, 220,000 square foot building is set to open in late 2018. Whiz fly often or you have not been on a plane in year chances are first person you see when you step on to an airplane is one of the Flight Attendants. But they are not only there to make comfortable on your flight. Eyewitness news, reporter greg argos explains the training that they go through to make sure everybody is safe reporter that is exactly right, ukee and guess contact i was able to travel to denver , colorado to see firsthand how Flight Attendant s are trained. Frontier airlines is based in denver and they gave us access to their Safety Program and learn exactly why Flight Attendants are not just there for your comfort but in an emergency they are trained to quickly become first responders. October 2016 this flight catches fire at take off in chicago. Everyone escapes but evacuation is delayed by people, recording the emergencies. Some even taking their personal items off the flight with them. I think the one tip is to just go straight to that exit and evacuate, leave everything behind. Reporter Frontier Airlines gave cbs3 unprecedented access to their Flight Attendant training, from fires evacuate with a fire. Reporter to evacuations. Ninety seconds or less is goal. Reporter simulations are intense and flames are real. All to to prepare men and women working 30,000 feet in the air, for any emergency. What they learn and information that you need to know, if you are ever caught in a real life emergency. Now Flight Attendants at frontier go through three week program and ukee and jessica, part of that training covers hand to hand combat that training began after 9 11. Full report is tonight at 11 00 oclock here on cbs 36789 really intense stuff, these men and women go to. Im a frequent flier. Thanks, buddy. Tiny technology with big benefits, still to come on Eyewitness News tonight, doctor say it will keep you from reaching for those reading glasses, hello. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has a sneak peak of the process that promises to have you skipping the spec particular californias, kate. Wild weather ride as temperatures head back to the 70s and many with severe thunderstorms. We will time out those storms and big chill, that follows upcoming up. Plus she travels around the globe and shes back home Important Message this star has for students and her former school, don. From bad to worse, process , is dealt another serious blow, why we will not see joel embiid on the court any time soon. That is late inner sports. New help for millions of people who need glass toes read. Million and one. That is right. On the healthwatch tonight Tiny Technology that is similar to a rain drop is now letting people ditch their reading glasses. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl is here to show us how it works and i bet people will go, what . It is very cool technology. You know it is a natural part of the aging process eyes change making it difficult to read without help. Well, now there is a new improved f. D. A. Implant that gives people a new option. Darryl calf faze is a busy Software Consultant hoist always reaching for his reading glass toes see is what on his phone. It is a hassle. Reporter issues for most people at age 40 your vision changes, making millions rely on socalled cheaters. You dont like to rely on these glasses i take it. No, because they are not always with you. Reporter new technology to help people with near vision loss or other problems is a tiny lens called rain drop. But this is just on the front of the eye. Reporter doctor steven is only doctor locally with the rain drop near vision inlay it is 80 percent water resembling a tiny water droplet. This is by far best thing we have ever had. Wow i can see my eye phone without my glasses. Wow. Reporter after investigating various options darryl decided to get rain drop implant. This goes very, very quickly. Reporter first topical anesthetic, laser that is used for lasix makes a flap to open up cornea and rain drop lens size of the opinion head is positioned and the flap is polledded back down. It takes 11 minutes. It is a lens but it is sort of just bumps out the front of the eye where we focus. Reporter changing shape of the cornea can improve near vision, without effecting distance vision. It wasnt bad at all. Reporter right after after the procedure darryl was able to read is what on his phone. Pretty cool, right. Yeah. Wait until tomorrow, next day and gets better and better reporter darryl, hoist 52 will see final results in two to three weeks. I think it will help me a lot, you know, just with my every day, you know, paths, especially my active tasks. Now risk for the procedure are considered minimal and include infection and some patients could complain of i glare at night. Rain drop inlay cost 4,500 is not covered by insurance. Thinks the second f. D. A. Approved implant that can be used for, reading. It probably is quite, you know, nice to be able to just be able to see againy got three lensness here. Three. Progressive, i use all of them, im happy with them. That flap, wow. Thanks, stephanie. Appreciate it. The Eye Institute at penn medicine celebrated black history by honoring accomplishments in the department of ophthalmology. Lunch raised awareness for glaucoma. According to glad coma Research Foundation it is leading cause of blindness among african americans. The event featured, guest speakers and food. Kate bilo joins with us our forecast coming off a great i weekend. Every day this week is an up and down, it is just this pattern that is crazy. It is battle between winter and spring this week as we move from february to march. It looks like it will be warmest february ever in philadelphia, which should come as no surprise after what we have been looking at, after what we have been dealing with , temperatures well above average, as i will show you with the official results tomorrow but as of right now were a lock. Lets look outside and start off with the roof cam which is looking nice this evening. Clouds are in place, so definitely felt like it got darker faster this evening but we have less than two weeks now until today light savings time. So two weeks from yesterday, actually once that happens the sun will set after 7 00 oclock. So big changes are on the way when we look at this camera in two weeks. It will be nice and light outside still and that is when it starts to feel like spring around here. Storm scan three shows us a couple of showers here and there. A lot of these not reaching ground, light sprinkles, south of the State College here a little intensification, anywhere we see dark green indication that steadied rain may be falling in that area but not expecting too much in the way of precipitation out there tonight. Tomorrow and wednesday could be a different story. Recapping today we got to 54. Normal high 47. We were 20 degrees shy of the rorrer. Sunrise at 6 37. Sunset at 5 51. Lets look at february, these are ridiculous departures from normal. We added one extra day of near normal temperatures, and we are one below in the 26th. That was yesterday, sunday. Today seven above normal. Tomorrow we will be more like 17 above normal. Finish out february with temperatures well above average, for this time of the year. But heres is what on the way as we head through next few days you can see this system moves in and right here look at those storms coming through during the day on wednesday and then behind it, it turns colder on thursday. So your rain chances this week tuesday, tomorrow about a 50 percent chance of rain that is mainly in the evening hours , and so after six or 7 00 we will see batch of rain coming through. Day you want to watch is wednesday when those lines of storms comes through, it is midday into the early to mid afternoon. 80 percent chance there still cannot rule out a lingering shower thursday or friday either. Behind that front look at this drop. Seventyfour on wednesday, before that front comes through with strong thunderstorms. Saturdays forecast ted high just 39 degrees. So temperatures really plumet, we have got a little bit of everything here. Sixtys tomorrow with late day showers. Threat for scattered locally severe thunderstorms on wednesday, at 74. Fiftys on thursday. That is our transition day. Then chilly on friday, rain or even a snow shower, and saturday, 39, cold, blustery and we will warm up again back to the mid 50s sunday and monday. Yes. Were all in just throwing darts at a dart board. Yes, that is right. Ukee looks over at me like, yes. Wait, wait. Did she say that. Yes. That is bizarre. Dons up next in sports. Im beyond that. Bad news for joe joe and sixers hold a certain medical procedure will be a fix for ben simmons. We will explain next up in brand new bentley on the driveway but could not drive it because of bad suspension. It takes time to fix. Now you know how it feels like to be sixers and joel embiid. Today they announced joe joeys now out indefinitely. He has been 13 straight games with the bone bruce and torn tendon, after work out his knee has been swelling out and feeling sore. Embiid was scheduled to have an mri this afternoon. His teammates, have no other choice but to move on as they get set to toe on golden state warriors. I can sit here and complain that he is not playing and people need to step up. I think, jahlil has done that, you know, even in some more other guys have stepped up too so, you know, we have to keep doing that for however long i is out. From joe joe to ben, top draft choice ben simmons had a procedure today. He had bone marrow injected in the fractured area of his foot to promote healing. Simmons broke it on the final day of Training Camp and should be resuming training by the end of the week. Flyers have had night off they host Colorado Avalanche tomorrow, just one day before the nhl trade deadline. Orange and black six points out of the final wild card spot they could be sellers. When they hit the ice, next, they could be without, no, not could but they will be without defenseman Brandon Manning. He is suspended two games for his sit dad day night with the penguins. The player involved was not injured, but there was no penalty on the play but punishment will cost Brandon Manning nearly 11,000. Phillies and rays fanatic working on the jays, getting ready for the season. Put it on them right now. Miguel franco working on power , going way back, all the waste back, off the wall. Check out this fan, yeah, heads up play, right there. Right there. Give me that. Wow. Yeah. Heads up, franco is looking out there. Seventwo your final score. Military Appreciation Night for denver nuggets. The no look half court shot. That means one member of the u. S. Coastguard walked away with 1400 bucks. That guy. Yes. For sure. There you go. He loves rocky. Yes. Oh, man yo rock nice job. When we come back very happy home coming. This globetrotter returns to the Philadelphia School she once attended why she was seeing two students do cool tricks, up next. For years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. We deliver superfast internet with speeds of 150 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. We do business where you do business. A native returned to the former Elementary School as 14th female in the history, of the harlem globetrotters. Bria young returned to Blair Christiana contacted my as swish, she spoke about, growing up in philadelphia, and also how to combat bullying. She even showed some of her tricks off there. She will make her Wells Fargo Center debut this weekend. So keep an eye out for her. Nicely done. Early on Eyewitness News this morning, she and fellow globetrotters were giving point tours our own pat gallen check out three man we have, off the backboard and then, zoom, he slam dunks. Nicely done by all, nicely done. And early. Thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00. We are back at 10 00 oclock on cb philly and back here on cbs at 11 00. 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